Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom ; [contributing editor, Pamela Loos].
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.; Loos, Pamela.
Series: Bloom's modern critical views
Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, -- 1749-1832 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-268) and index.
Table of contents: title: Goethe the novelist : on the coherence of his fiction / Hans Rudolph Vaget; title: Revolutionary realism in Goethe's Wanderjahre / Ehrhard Bahr; title: Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and the poetic unity of the novel in early German Romanticism / Ernst Behler; title: Goethe's Iphigenie : autonomous humanity and the authority of the gods in the era of benevolent despotism / Wolfgang Wittkowski; title: Thoas and Iphigenie : a reappraisal / Donna Dietrich and Harry Marshall; title: Goethe's Torquato Tasso : poetry and political power / Hans Reiss; title: Faust II and the Darwinian revolution / John Gearey; title: The Werther effect : the esthetics of suicide / Tobin Siebers; title: The "other subject" of history : women in Goethe's drama / Sigrid Lange; title: Faust's forgetting / Harald Weinrich; title: Rights and wrongs in Goethe's Die Wahlverwandschaften / David Constantine; title: Goethe's Die Leiden des jungen Werthers : an epistolary novel, or a stage drama in disguise? / Ilona Klein; title: The material image in Goethe's Wahlverwandschaften / Brigitte Peucker; title: West-östlicher Divan and other late poetry / Irmgard Wagner.